Family Quotes

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

George Burns

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Jewish Prove

I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Calvin Trillin

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

William James Durant

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Gray Davis

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills.

Anthony Brandt

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Jane Howard, "Families".

Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.

Carl T. Rowan, Jr.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Tom Robbins

It used to take courage - - Indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - - To leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.

Alvaro de Solva

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Isaac Rosenfeld

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close - Knit family in another city.

George Burns

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10 - 06 - 05

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - Putting together all their yesterdays - And averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - It is worse than a large family - He is the silent poor indeed.

Henry David Thoreau

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

John Irving

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Buddha

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.

Marcelene Cox

Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Alexander Pope

There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.

Sir V Pritchett

To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well.

Author Unknown

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

Ruby Manikan

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Vartan Gregorian

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.

Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01